Space Industry Analysis
Dec 01, 2017
Twice faced with cancellation, the joint NASA-DLR project now has a budget surplus.
Dec 01, 2017
In this week’s Washington Outlook, ex-deputy defense secretary cautions on shorting computing research; costs up for Wfirst Telescope; terrorism a threat.
Nov 29, 2017
Vega has been a great success for Avio, encouraging further innovation for the rocket.
Nov 24, 2017
The CST-100 Starliner, one of two U.S. spacecraft in development for NASA International Space Station crew rotation, is on track for a 2018 debut.
Nov 23, 2017
In this week’s Washington Outlook, a Senate chairman’s bill still has many hurdles to overcome and the Transportation Department brings an end to Eastern Air Lines.
Nov 21, 2017
The spacecraft made by Ball Aerospace is the first of four similarly instrumented ones designed to extend severe weather forecasts out as far as seven days.
Jun 22, 2022
Four mystery satellites accompanied the Globalstar FM-15 communications satellite into orbit, data posted on the 18th Space Defense Sqdn.’s Space-Track.org website show.
Jun 22, 2022
The Space Development Agency has issued a solicitation for the design, development and deployment of its Tranche 1 Demonstration and Experimentation System satellite constellation.
Jun 22, 2022
After having said recently the first flight of an Ariane 6 medium- to heavy-lift launcher will not take place until 2023, European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher has announced details will not be discussed publicly until July 13.
Jun 22, 2022
NASA’s Mars Insight science team plans to extend marsquake-data gathering by the probe’s seismometer while available power dwindles daily due to dust accumulating on the lander’s solar arrays.
Jun 21, 2022
NASA managers on June 21 were reviewing results of a modified fueling test of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, which culminated when the onboard flight system software aborted the countdown.
Jun 21, 2022
The U.S. Energy Department has awarded three conceptual-design contracts for Moon-based nuclear-fission powerplants for NASA’s Artemis missions starting in the 2030s.
Jun 21, 2022
Technical issues that curtailed three Space Launch System tanking tests at the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B in April appear to have been resolved, but a new issue stymied a fourth practice countdown underway on June 20.
Jun 20, 2022
A test of the Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply capsule’s ability to raise the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) while docked to it was aborted quickly June 20.